The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers

Category: General Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Coming of Age Genre Fiction Literary Fiction

Written by Carson McCullers
Read by Cherry Jones
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

12 hr 28 min
Carson McCullers was all of 23 when she published her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. She became an overnight literary sensation, and soon such authors as Tennessee Williams were calling her “the greatest prose writer that the South [has] produced.” The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter tells an unforgettable tale of moral isolation in a small southern mill town in the 1930s. Richard Wright was astonished by McCullers’s ability “to rise above the pressures of her environment and embrace white and black humanity in one sweep of apprehension and tenderness.” Hers is a humanity that touches all who come to her work, whether for the first time or, as so many do, time and time again. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is Carson McCullers at her most compassionate, most enduring best.